sumday: Mar 2/25

Mostly lab notes. a summary day of many smaller entries.

Keeping track is part of the continuous life of working as maker. The darkroom is where I spent much of my work life. Writing under that circumstance meant paper and plastic. As important to the process of markers is a notebook. It can be as casual as the one shown or as formal as the one I used with dye transfer.

I make small reference marks on the prints. These are also noted in the notebook in which the full comments are written. This book becomes stuffed with test-print portions which serve as prompts for remake or guides to process alteration, such as developer addenda. [talas ]

if in doubt, check definitions from working groups, special societies. Academics have the motivation to define, refine, until it provides advantage to a field.

keep small bottles of ready to use Addenda. These are for use with paper developers– amidol in this instance.

limits to enlargement: least discussed is ‘system flare’ — MTF of process chain is most often discussed; it can be calculated. System flare must be measured.

overnight: catch up

— cross ovr as a catchall obscures your error, thereby deferring a solution.
contrast failure
color temp failure.
speed errors.
-- lpd update paper/dev
-- fix? ra4 paper color advice? border
-- multigrade, rh stop clock: ler, iso [*] interpretations
foma papers
--- graded
--- variable grade

Kodak Advanced Technical publication J-1 "Processing Chemicals and Formulas for Black-and-White Photography... in mem of watkins factors and compensating timers. instead of temp controllers.

DK-50 in '77 & in '5n
\\\\-- time wasters, not spenders. you give away your eyes as you also dilute ideas
---meaningful of meaningless form -- what turns one into the other? does it happen?

orologists with pins and pliers now use scopes and solder
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the most apt to be casual in habit, relying upon eye-hand answers.

Japanese posters: that which doesn't translate, transforms
translation by transformation.
between the written and the wonder
the word and the word imagined

'the half finished heaven' poem

pieces from other puzzles
broken token

the book is
the prize in the box... buy the picture, get a book.
bochner
james j. gibson
taine [Taine sought to establish a scientific approach to literature through the investigation of what created the individual who created the work of art.]

marcel proust
marcel duchamp
mao tse-tung
maurice merleau-ponty
emile zola
ludwig wittgenstein

'photographs are/do/supply/can't/ is
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fujifilm RA paper:
dp Glossy Paper is available as: Thickness (240 μm)
Glossy CA Paper is available as:
– Thickness (205 μm)
Maxima Glossy Paper is available as:
– Thickness (240 μm)

following YT having problem with "spots" -- stretch marks. cellulite. the paper thickness affects the result.
https://youtu.be/R4DYaHxo7fc?si=WcDXGegTW-6oa2ZI